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Decor DIY

Here are some of our favorite unique wedding decor DIY projects and wedding DIY tutorials. We’ve also got wedding decor inspiration if you just want to get more crafty ideas.

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DIY Companion Cube ring box for under $10

My future husband and I love playing video games together and Portal is a favorite (even though he’s better at it than me). I saw this post on Geekologie and fell in love with the idea of a Companion Cube ring box for our wedding. So we decided to make our own.

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Make your own treasure chest card box

Tribesmaid Bridgetfalcon needed a card box in keeping with her Celtic-Renaissance wedding theme. So she DIY’d a treasure chest card holder out of an unfinished wooden box from a craft store.

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DIY disc bunting: It’s different because it’s circles!

Circle card stock bunting: the good news is it’s fast, super-cheap, and super-easy! It’s so easy that I got other people to help make them too. And here’s how you can easily make your own…

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Find your wedding colors from within a photo

We LOVE getting color ideas from photos! Sometimes you end up seeing that one photo that captures the mood so well that you must have the colors for your wedding. There are fun little tools called color generators that will extract the main colors of a photo for you, allowing you to snag and save them for your shopping trips. Match your dress to a setting sun, match your ribbon backdrop to the sky… you get the idea.

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Keep pieces of your invitations in a heart-shaped bottle

This was a gift from a guest of Seth and Jerilyn’s wedding. Their thoughtful guest cut up pieces of their invitation and stored them in a heart-shaped container. Jarilyn says that it now “graces our TV, because that’s where we look the most!”

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DIY forkin’ menu holders for your foodie wedding

Attention foodies: We have found your menu holders. These stinkin’ cute fork-people from Polish the Stars hold more than recipe cards. Your painstakingly delicious menus can be cradled in their forkin’ little hands!